Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 9, 1916, Page 14

2—C Fo! BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. TOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. “The Bee Publahing Company, Propristor. T FARNAM AND 8E\ENTEENTH “at Omaba postoffics as second class matter TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Ky carnier Per wonth Ry mail per year Dally and Bunday.. Dally withous Sunday . Brening and Sunday 3 Sunday y s v Rea thres years In ange of address of I maka Bee Circulation Department REMITTANCE. JUNE CIRCULATION 57,957 Daily—Sunday 52,877 ms. ciroulstion menager of The Beo irculation Manager Subaribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 34 day of July. 1016 RORERT RUNTER Notary Public. Subscribers leaving the city temporarily should have The Bee mailed to them. Ad- dress will be changed as often as requested. King Corn still reigns. More quiet on, the Rio Grande! Nebraska's small grain is made and a few weeks of corn weather will do the rest. Viewed from the grand stand, Rus sfa’s 1916 model steam roller devel- ops the biggest surprise on Mar's speedway. Self-styled republicans who con- stantly take their political grievances to democratic newspaper organs are easily placed. Judged by the measurements of the official reports, the big push has not materially shortened the road to Tipperary. Higher-ups in warring countries talk loudly and differ widely on peace terms. Meanwhile the rank and file continue fighting and dying. Again we repeat that more money is to be made in judicious invest- ments in Omaha real estate from now on than ever was made in the past. Besides giving American prepared- ness a substantial boost, the Mexican muss put the lid on appeals for im- mediate independence of the Philip- pines. With the shrinking of the wrestling match gate receipts to a paltry $16,- 000, gross, the game is in a fair way to reform itself by mere lack of in- Our Nebraska soldier boys could not travel in tourist sleepers, al- though available, because the troops from other states did not have them. That's a wonderful reason! The comptroller of the currency reports 14,288,059 depositors in the national banks, an increase of 86 per cent in six years. It pays to adver- tise when you have something worth while. are still claiming to have had the advantage in that North Sea naval fight. 1t is to be noted, though, that neithers appears to be wholly satis- fied with the outcome. Despite his public approval of the St. Louis platform, Mr. Bryan, in his lectures, is taking pot-shots at its pre- paredness plank. Perhaps the presi- dent would have done better, after all, to have engaged the former sec- retary of state to again write the plat- form. Makers and dealers of men's cloth- ing feel they are not getting their share of the price uplift and expect to fatten the tag about 20 per cent. If they pile it on too strong last win- er’s styles will be called back by the pinch. The appearance on the ballot of hat proposed constitutional amend- jment to permit the democratic oil- inspector factotum to give himself a pix-year job is the worst indictment of all against Governor Morehead's dministration. If this brazen pie- ounter grab is not emphatically re- buked at the polls, we will miss our ess. Income Tax Returns, Income tax returns for the past fis- al year reveal a higher and wider each of prosperity than in the pre- vious two years since the tax was in- ptituted. The returns for the fiscal year of 1914 amounted to $71,381,274 pnd for 1915 $80,190,694. This year he returns reached the surprising to- al of $124,867,430. A portion of the increase is due to a closer application pf the law and the wholesome fear of ederal prosecution. The bulk of the jast gain of $44,000,000 over the previ- pus fiscal year must be attributed to he phenomenal profits of war sup- plies and the prosperity flowing from pnhanced prices for practically all merican products. Nebraska's con- ibution to the income gold mine ped from $361,373 in 1914 to $492,- PI1 in 1916. Equally liberal increases re recorded in Jowa, Kansas, South Dakota, Wyoming and Colorado, each eflecting the uplift of the wider diffu- jon of wealth. The increased levy bn incomes now pending in congress promises to make this tax the richest ingle un:ce of federal revenue. THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE | Passing of a Political Freak. A report by a special committee of the Amer ican Bar association, just made public, is a re ! minder of something most folks had almost for | naturally of beng duly aworn. sars thal the | W of May, 1916, was | gotten, namely, that the threatened destruction of the independence of our judiciary by the catchword chamsm of the “recall of judges” or the “recall of judicial decisions” has practically run its course. Information is given that for re than a vear there has not been passed by a any measure having this purpose is any proposal for such a measure t} either itted ta the electorate of a state, | the constitutional amendment or otherwise The committee feels safe in declar- ing as a reasonable certainty that no state which has not already adopted a constitutional amend ment providimg for judicial recall will do so, and, of public opinion by enlightened lawyers the credit for this condition course, gives to the education Regardless of whys or wherefores, it is re markable that what seemed for a time to be a raging popular demand has so suddenly and com- pletely subsided. Here in Nebraska, for exam- ple, where we have the initiative and referendum opening the way for the people to get what they want and nothing but a petition bearing a stipu- lated number of autographs is required to submit such a proposal to popular vote, no one has been sufficiently interested even to prepare the neces- sary papers and put them in circulation. Had such a measure, however, been submitted to the electorate of this state three, or cven two, years | ago, it would have taken an organized campaign to head it off. T'he Bee was never led astray by this will-o'- the-wisp, but it is gratifying to know how quickly time vindicates sound principles of gov- ernment Clean Athletic Sports. Americans are still greatly interested in out- door sports, and, for the matter of that, in ath- letes and athletics generally. This trait of the national character is not to be gauged by the prosperity of professional sports, although the latter may in some respects be considered as a reflex index of the bent of the people toward play that involves physical exercise, and in which ex» cellence depends on skill and agility as well as muscular development. A better indication, how- evar, is the popularity of golf. This game, less strenuous than some other forms of outdoor sport, has in it enough of demand for endurance as well as the co-ordination of different bodily and mental functions to make it quite an ideal antidote for the sedentary habits of work to which many are condemned. But the golfer has plenty of company. Base ball, tennis, rowing, swimming, riding, shooting, fishing, a iong list of pleasant pastimes, call people into the open air and give them beneficial occupation for mind and body, and enable them to challenge the cynicism that Americans employ professionals to play their games for them. We are still an outdoor people, vigorous and active, and the quality of our physique will compare without discredit with that of any in the world. And, above all, we love sport for sport's sake, and while we may impatiently tolerate, . we do not endorse games that are promoted merely for the gate receipts. Woman's Share in the War. Back of the firing line in the European war, on both sides, just now stands a phalanx that gives a new tinge to the thought of conflict. Na- poleon cynically assigned woman to a definite place with relation to the affairs of government and war. Her business was to bear soldiers. Kaiser Wilhelm 11, less blunt, but nearly as brusque, consigned her to the three K's, and went on about his business of training her male off- spring for the work of the modern warrior. He has lived to see woman emerge from the sphere into which he thrust her, and to see her take the place of the mainstay of the empire. “Ev- ery pit is a trench, every workshop a rampart,” cries Lloyd-George, who has just come to be war minister for Great Britain, and who long ago said the war was being fought out in the work- shops. In Germany today 40 per cent of the explosives and 50 per cent of the equipment for the kaiser's armies is produced by work of women. What the percentage is in the other countries is not known, but it is certain that it is scarcely much less than in Germany. Woman is no longer restricted to cooking, church and children, nor is her sole relation to war that of bearing and rearing soldiers. She doesn’t march with the colors, but she has taken up tasks the men laid down that they might shoulder rifles, dig burrows in the earth and die like trapped animals under poisonous gases or in the crash of such explosions as have not rocked the universe since Michael overthrew Lucifer. Woman is supporting the armies in the field by carrying on the work that makes it possible for men to fight, Will man be able, after the war, to readily ad- Jjust himself to the new condition that has been created within less than twenty-four months? The social and economic revolution is not yet fully understood, even by the philosophers. “Dictation” and “Self-Defense.” A defender of President Wilson turns to his New York speech of June 30 and quotes the pres- ident as asking: "Would anyone carry self- defense to the extent of dictating the affairs of another nation?" All right; but keep in mind what Mr. Wilson actually has done in the way of dictating to Mexicans. Victoriano Huerta suc- ceeded to the office of president of Mexico as Woodrow Wilson did to the presidency of the United States, yet Wilson demanded that Huerta resign; sent ultimatum after ultimatum to enforce this order; forbade the Mexican congress to meet or pass laws; declared he would not recognize as valid any acts of the Mexican government; sent not one, but two, personal representatives to con- nive and intrigue with Mexican rebels, and finally gave his official benediction to a chieftain whose only claim to recognition is that he was agreed upon by a junta held under the muzzles of rifles in the hands of the followers of “Pancho” Villa. Keep these facts in mind, and also that it was Wilson who removed the embargo from shipment of arms to the Mexican rebels. Then you will understand the real beauty of the president's “single track” mind and appreciate the force of his remarks when he talks of “dictating the af- fairs of another nation.” e———— No tears need be shed if the resurrected Vil- listas wallop the Carranza crowd from Parral to Jiminez, Chihuahua to Carrizal. A sound drub- ing all along the line would prove fitting retri- bution for the folly of failing to co-operate with l General Pershing in the roundup of bandits. Vs, By Victor Bosewater. I BELIEVE I mentioned some time ago re- ceiving a letter from Milton Nobles, long a well-known stage celebrity and now writ- { ing and lecturing, with Brooklyn as his home, UNDAY BEE: JULY 9, 1916. : TODAY | Thought Nugget for the Day. | | asking me to verify some material going back to | s theatrical career here in the carly days of Omaha. [ have another letter from him now | calling attention to his Omaha reminiscences | which appear in the current Theater M and which are so readable that I feel jus making liberal quotations. | "Omuaha in 1867-8 was not exactly a western }m”lwpulm, but it sure was a warm member { What it lacked in art it made up in atmosphere. | There were some hoard sidewalks, but no street pavements. We had lots of mud when it rained and lots of dust when it didn't, wore their pants inside their boot legs it was dry we blacked the boots; for full dress we blacked legs and all. The Academy of Music and a wild and woolly variety show were the only places of entertamnment. Possibly amuse- ment would be a better word, but that should be qualifiecd. The academy was upstairs in a two story building. The theater occupied one side and a licensed faro game was directly acrass the hall. Oil lamps supplied the foot and side lights The stage was twenty feet deep with an opening of ahout the same sizd. There was a gallery across the end of the hall, with wooden benches, while the first floor was seated with “split bot- tom” chairs. D. T. Corri was the manager and the stock company was a good one, including, among others, Virginia Cunningham Germon, Annie Ward, Mis. De Bar, Jessie Howard, Scl- den Irwin, Harry Jordan, J. B. Ashton, Mrs. Ashton, Hattie Price, W. T. Harris, Harry Rain forth, Frank Weston, John Germon — Of this company, beside the writer, Frank Weston and Harry Rainforth are still in evidence. The latter wag for many years one of the managers of the Grand Opera House in Cincinnati. “Many famous stars visited us, including John E. Owens, Edwin Adams, Lucille Western, John McCullough, €. W. Couldock and Charlotte Crampton. The latter was one of those phenome- nal creatures who force us to recognize the ex- istence of that mysterious something vaguely called genius. She was then, prabably, 50. She had been the leading support of Forrest, the elder Booth and Macready. On a cold January morning she wandered into town from no one knew where, penniless and half clothed. She carried two pieces of excess baggage, a hig dissi pated son of perhaps 30 and a hushand some vears younger. The only piece of real baggage among them was a banjo carried by the son. He ot a job around the corner at the variety house. ‘hey registered at the Hamilton house, adjoin- ing the academy. The woman was a sight. A dumpy little figure, not more than five feet. She wore an old waterproof coat which covered her from chin to ankles; an old straw hat with the remnants of a dilapidated stage plume. She car ried a small bag about equal to a brush and comb and possibly a night gown. The two men were without overcoats. They hadn’t a trunk, just that little old handbag and the banjo. In the group about the dingy 7inlc office at the time was the afterward famous Henry M. Stanley.” Nobles goes on to describe the wonderful work of this actress and proceeds: “Henry M. Stanley was at this time a western correspondent of the New York Herald. His letters were supposedly written from frontier camps and military posts. Some of them were no doubt; a great many more were written in a dingy little room in the Hamilton hotel in Omaha. There was a reason. It was Annie Ward, the li'rc"y soubrette of the Academy Stock company. his romance is a matter of earf’y Omaha history. He wanted to marry her, too. He gave her a beautiful gold watch—there was also a pretty story of a diamond ring which Annie didn't get because she declined to let Stanley place it on a certain finger. Dainty Annie had lost her heart to a good-looking young clerk in a book store. They married at the end of the season. She sup- ported him in idleness for two or three years and one day in St. Louis—she was a member of De Bar's stock at the time—she made her final exit by the poison route. “At the time of which I write, the late Edward Rosewater, founder of The Omaha Bee, was a telegraph operator in charge of the Western Un- ion office in Omaha. He was also correspondent of newspapers in Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati and New York. Many years afterwards I passed a pleasant afternoon with Mr. Rosewater at the Ponce de Leon, in St. Augustine. We talked of old days in Omaha and he told me, among other things, how he came to start The Bee. %n 1871 he was a member of the Nebraska legislature. He had secured the passage of a law reorganizing the public schools of Omaha as a metropolitan district. He started The Bee to arouse public interest in school matters. It was a folio about the size of a theater program, circulated free, It carried the theater announcement and was used as the regular house program. Then he recalled the Stanley incidents. ~ The discoverer of Living- ston was at the time in this country, delivering his lecture on his African explorations. He was accompanied by his beautiful and gifted wife. While in Omaha they had been the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Rosewater. “‘The morning after the lecture! said Mr. Rosewater, ‘we took Mr. and Mrs. Stanley for a drive, landing them at the station where they were to take the Overland for Denver. I had instructed the driver to pass the old academy, which is now being used as a Salvation Army barracks. I watched Stanley's face as we passed the building. He scanned it carefully in a dreamy kind of way, and I fancied a sort of sigh escaped him. I must have smiled, unconsciously, for his manner changed quickly, and he sai That's where the old theater used to b rec plied, “and a few doors above was the old Ham- ilton house, where you wrote those wonderful frontier letters for the Herald." He laughed heartily.' “Stanley had, of course, been nettled when so many American newspapers showed a disposi- tion to question his discovery of Livingston. He said to Rosewater, as they were waiting for the train: You were among the doubters, too, Ed- ward. “‘I had my reasons,’ laughed his host, 'l re- membered those frontier, hair-raising, on-the-spot experiences you used to write at my desk in the \\'esu:rn Union office and which I put on the wires. “And so the newspaper founder and the con- tinent finder parted, merrily. Let us hope they h_advevreuewed youth and friendship on the other side. l Shafts Aimed at Omaha l Lincoln Star: Base ball as the national game has in its favor the presumption that it's a gentle- man's game, a presumption which the Omaha exhibition of roughneckism here must go far to destroy. Patrons of the sport have a right to a guarantee that they will not have to witness these scenes of disorder and rowdyism. Aurora Sun: Down in Omaha a jury was be- ing made up when the discovery was made that one of the panel was missing. It was learned that the absent member of the jury is serving time in the Nebraska penitentiary, working in the furni- ture factory for the state, and he was excused from service under the rules and regulations of constitutional provisions and statute. But, frank- ly, would not a man alrecady serving time make just as fair a juror as the one who ought'to be I serving time, but is not? Most people | When | He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.—Goethe. One Year Ago Today in the War. British and French government and military heads conferred at Calais. Orduna, bringing Americans hon ope, fired upon by German sub mar Vienna announced that heavy Russian assaults north of Krasnik were repulsed British, after a two-day hand grenade battle | pushed Germans out of more tret [N | Today in Omaha Thirty Years Ago. | excursion James H. Wintersteen has leit on { and will visit relatives ir state before returning H. B. Irey. the real estate agent, has gone for a pleasure trip through Canada, the New England states and the south \ very pleasant time was spent at the residence of William Altstadt on South Sixteenth street in which about thirty friends took part. It was the fifty-first anniversary of Mr. Altstadt's birthday New York and the occasion was remembered by the Omaha Maenncrchor, who treated Mr. Altstadt to a sere- nade. Messrs. Stuht and Hammill have secured con- tracts to the extent of $100,000 for grading sev- eral streets in Omaha. The Gate City restaurant has been removed to Crounse block, 119 North Sixteenth street, where the proprietor, V. (. Seavers, intends making it a first-class restaurant in every respect. g M. F. Martin, who has been in business in Omaha, 316 South Fifteenth, for the last four years, has removed to Chicago, where he will.open up a place of business on a larger scale. About 200 residents of South Omaha have pre- sented a petition to the county commissioners asking for permission to incorporate under the name of the Village of South Omaha. This Is the Day We Celebrate. Edward T. Yates, the druggist, is just 46 years old. He was born in Ogden, 111, and commenced to learn the drug business in I.ngun, Ta., in 1888. He is president, treasurer and chief owner of the Schaffer Cut-Price Drug store. Florence Rockwell, well-known actress, born in St. Lows, thirty-six years ago today. Major General Sir George Younghusband, who recently was appointed to the command of the British forces in Mesopotaniia, born fifty-seven years ago today. Rear Admiral John R. Edwards, U. S. N, re- tired, born in Pennsylvania, sixty-three years ago today Richard A. Ballinger, former secretary of the interior, born in Boonesboro, Ia., fifty-eight years ago today Prof. Herschel (. Parker, physicist and ex- plorer, who claims to have originated the diminu- tive submarine idca, born in Brooklyn, forty-nine years ago today. Rt. Rev. Robert A. Gibson, Episcopal bishop of Virginia, born at Petersburg, Va., seventy years ago today. Charles 1.. Herzog, manager of the Cincinnati National Teague base ball team, born in Balti- more, thirty-one years ago today. Today in History. 1776—New York Provincial congress at White Plains sanctioned the Declaration of Independ- ence, making the thirteen colonies unanimous. 1816-—Rio de la Plate (Argentina) declared itself independent of S and took the title of the United Provinces of South America. 1836--Battle between United States troops and Indians at Welika Pond, Fla. 1843—Washington Allston, who was called by the artists of Rome “the American Titian,” died at Cambridgeport, Mass. Born in South Caro- lina, November §, 1779, 1850—Zachary Taylor, whose victories in the Mexican war made him president of the United States, died in Washington, D. C. Born in Orange county, Va., September 24, 1784, 1806—The first establishment for the sale of horse flesh as human food was opened in Paris. 1876—Castle Garden, New York City, was de- stroyed by fire. 1866-—-A general amnesty to those engaged in the insurrection in the Canadian northwest was proclaimed, only murderers being excepted. Timely Jottings and Reminders. Sunday will be the centennial anniversary of the independence of the Argentine Republic. Manchester, N. H., is to put the daylight-sav- ing plan into effect for two months beginning today, when clocks will be set ahead one hour. Where They Are Nov; Rome Miller, proprietor of the Hotel Rome is now taking life easy with his family in Los | Angeles, where the family maintains a nice home. | Mr. Miller is to be back in Omaha in a few weeks | to attend the convention of northwest hotel men. | C. O. Byam, who has been general'manager for the Morris Packing company in Omaha for a number of years, has recently been promoted to a supervising position for all the Morris packing plants. He is traveling on the road now, and will probably make his headquarters in Chicago. W. E. Adams, who formerly did a photo- graphic_business in Omaha, and lived at 371! North Twenty-seventh street, is now a photo- grapher in St il, Minn. Abe Brodky, formerly proprietor of the Sub- way Clothing company of Omaha, is now living in Des Moines, where he has a son in business. D. Burns, formerly a buyer in the art de partment of Hayden Brothers, is now living in Minneapolis, where he has a position with a large department store James Carroll, Izard street in Or Commerical ho formerly lived at 1811 tha, is now proprietor of the | hotet at Clay Center, Neb. He| and moved his tamily out there r, member of the Omaha Guar: is no er for the Stand » Hong Ko China. commissioner of the Omaha Com- al club for a period of years, is guiding the e Dayton, O., Commercial club. cCall deputy United States mar- George shal for a number of years under Marshal War- ner, is now livin in Butte, Mont Charles f 3 the live stock s in South Omaha, is now a v Toronto | | do - t be all you expect, you SECULAR SHOTS AT PULPIT.Li00) (Ui Girealt o biume.'—New ‘Tork The ministers are beginning to tak: abe =2 vacations. The devil, however, will 5 » A oo n hacK om the Fourth remain on his job at present.—Houston mingibackattamigthatiiogs Rt used to eing an old-fashioned song.” Syracuse has requested Bily Sunday to t 4 one-horse open come again, Syracuse being the first city to admit that it needs a second dose.—Detroit bly puzzied Free Press J"' “'"' A prominent clergyman says that the only PeL QUINA way to be interesting nowadays s to break the Ten Commandments. How is that being Is Rand happy In i interesting? It's about the least original 1 ] ! . Rand thing mankind can do.—Cleveland Plain the f UL Dealer. .'.x an " The devil has a perpetual contract for the ™ v | waste of the churche Is it not time = T S N > the denominational eparateness to be ch FROM ROMANY TO ROME. lenged in its den, the spirit of the . that calls upon the church to pre Q ron th { y man fault | I & goes To 1 ] n. Rat 1 |} i American. B N ‘ B e IS » whe DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. « cked with faam worid s Ahead the wlies the other day Yes," sald the doct “You san I've never lost a patle t family yet"—Detrolt Froe Press coar” he aald miikmatd 2" g 1 AIr” she aatd We take 1t from the cows'—Chicago Herald “Are you frying (o make your summor hoar . knowing some Waskington Star Will you have in ap-year malden, wite " sw You have suggeste “But Just remen 1wl replivd iame, IN MINING CABIN OR LUXURIOUS HOME THE DOMINANT THOUGHT IS Protection of the Loved Ones YOU MAY STRUGGLE ALL YOUR LIFE AND DIE, LEAVING THE FAMILY UNPROVIDED FOR A CERTIFICATE IN THE WOodmen Of the World WILL FINISH YOUR TASK. RING DOUGLAS 1117. NO CHARGE FOR EXPLANATION. J. T. YATES, Secretary. W. A. FRASER, President. EXCURSIONWFARES EAST ILLINOIS CENTRAL R. R. Choice of circuitous and direct routes to NEW YORK and BOSTON. Attractive routes to all Eastern Resorts. OPTIONAL OCEAN, LAKE AND RIVER TRIPS Liberal Stopovers Why not let us assist in planning trip affqrding visits at Principal Cities and Summer Resorts in the East? Tickets on sale daily, with 60-day and October 31st limits. For further information and attractive literature, call at CITY TICKET OFFICE, or write S. NORTH, District Passen- ger Agent, 407 South 16th St., OMAHA, NEB. PHONE DOUGLAS 264. It’s a Serious Proposition--- —_this high cost of living. Expenses here, there and everywhere; and bills, bills, bills! Seems as though everything’s going out and nothing coming in. However, much depends upon how you manage, for instance— You can make a joke out of this high cost of living bugaboo if you will invest in property and pay rent to yourself. Buy a home on the easy-payment plan, and then, instead of paying out rent money, you will actually be saving just that much every month by devoting it to an investment which will not only pay back every dollar, but a big profit besides. Watch the real estate columns of THE BEE. They contain many offerings which you may consider to your advantage. Reliable real estate men and builders stand ready to aid you in the selection of property and in the erection of a home. Tt's worth while. Try it. The Omaha Bee town where he has a| nut grove that i him a mint of | @M y. His back y hiat extends in- land from the Gulf ¢ 10 moored to the back steps of in which he ma 1e ion and fishing trips out into the guli. Story-ette of the Day. They were shortly to be married, and now they were sitting in his study, meditating on the bliss- fulness of futurity. “Algy." said the young lady, suddenly, “every morn you send me violets which at even you have culled, don't you?” “I do," responded the ever-faithful, “let the cost be what it may.” “You darling!” A long pause for osculatory operations. “But I should like to suggest,” murmured the sweet young thing, “that some mornings you might send up a pound of mutton chops or a couple of best loaves. It wouldn't cost you half so much, but it would make a splendid hit with the old folks in these increased-cost-of-living times."—Chicago Herald, lectric launch | # Persistence is the cardinal vir- tue in advertising; no matter how good advertising may be in other respects, it must be run frequently and constant- ly to be really successtul.